

That Summer Night on Frenchmen Street
Author: Chris Clarkson
Narrator: Shayna Small, Kirby Heyborne
Unabridged: 12 hr 20 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 12/05/2023
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance, Multicultural & Interracial, Family
Synopsis
doesn’t mind being caught up in family drama. Being busy keeps the water at bay—the water of memories, of Katrina, of past trauma.
So when Tennessee Williams—a rich white boy named after the writer—asks her out, she hesitantly says yes. He’ll be like a library book, she figures, something to read and return. Falling for him is another burden she can’t afford to carry.
Tennessee has always lived his life at the mercy of his mom’s destructive creativity and his dad’s hypermasculine expectations. Jessamine’s caring and aloof nature is a surprisingly welcome distraction. While she fights her attraction to him, Tennessee is pulled into her
inner family circle and develops a friendship with Joel’s boyfriend, Saint Baptiste. Together Saint and Tennessee bond over the difficulty of loving the emotionally unavailable Monet twins.
As senior year progresses, old traumas and familial pressures rise higher than hurricane waves. Can this group of friends make peace with each other, their families, and most importantly, with themselves?